Since now, everything has been really fun! We have done lots of awesome stuff like visiting Leipzig zoo, Leipzig city with its monuments and sights and Dresden, baking yummy cupcakes together, singing ABBA-Songs, and having an amazing look at the Great Barrier Reef in the Panometer. Amelia, my english exchange partner, and me, Sophia, have an unforgettableRead More

I stayed at Safia’s family. When I found out that she likes Sherlock as much as I did, well, we had a lot to talk about.
Different theories to the series were discussed. As this happened in school and we were not allowed to speak, we decided to dedicate our Saturday to Mr. Sherlock Holmes. We did NOT build up a shrine and start some sort of rituals, instead we travelled to London to visit some sets of the Sherlock series.

Accompanied by her 21 year old brother, Matteo, we took the train to London. Before we went to the first set, we stopped at his university and took a long look at St. Paul’s Cathedral and some fat pigeons. After that we headed to the St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Sherlock fans wrote on the telephone box and the dusty windows…we would never do something like that.

So after expressing ourselves on windows and having a closer look at the nice garden behind, we made our way to the famous Baker Street. We stopped at Kings Cross and watched people taking photos on track 9 3/4. Hit by nostalgia we got into the underground which isn’t close to the Hogwarts Express.

Finally there, we were gasping for air and were greeted by Sherlock Holmes himself. It was hot, so maybe we imagined it.

We looked at 221B Baker Street from the outside. There was a long queue and the English man in charge was stressed, making him impolite, but still nice by German standards.

On the whole way we talked about English series, English people and had a lot to laugh about. At the Sherlock-related places we would be all excited and would continue talking…but louder.

At last I bought a little souvenir (because memories are not enough). We took the train back to Woking and our great day ended with a wonderful BBQ with the others.

An exciting day in London. We started early in the morning, left Woking at 830 am, arriving at London Waterloo only minutes later.

After we left Waterloo Station we went to London Eye, took pictures of Big Ben and Westminster and walked over to walk around Westminster a bit, met a strange, enormous dog and had a fotoshooting at an classic UK phone booth.

Afterwards we walked to Horse Guards Parade to see the change of the guards there. As it was so sunny and temperatures began to increase rapidly, we walked into the nearby St. James Park and chilled in the shadow of a big tree. Next on the agenda was a visit to the museums district with Victoria&Albert, Science and Natural History Museum. Some of us focused on one of the three, some tried to visit each one.

Done with cultural London – shopping. Took the tube to Bond Street, chilled in a small park again before heading up to Oxford street and its uncountable number of shops. With full bags and emptier pockets we met after some hours back in the park, guess what … yes … chilled again and decided to walk to Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden to get some marvellous ice-cream on the recommendation of Paula. And what should we say, indeed it was one of the best ice-creams we ever ate. Truly delicious.

So this was our London day-trip. We took the tube back to Waterloo and left London after a our 12,5 hour visit. What a day 🙂

After several hours of sitting around at Berlin airport we finally got on the plane and arrived at Gatwick 1915 local time, a delay of 4.5 hours.

What a stress at Berlin airport: At first the flight was delayed by two hours, even the service-staff didnt knew about the delay, we got the good news from the internet. After one hour of waiting the delay increased to three and after another 30 minutes to four hours. At the end we waited 4.5 hours. But we had lots of fun at the airport, got some vouchers to buy food and drinks, relaxed under a tree and listened to strange south-east-european music 😉

Finally we arrived at Gatwick airport, where a minibus picked us up to go to Woking High. At half past nine we arrived at the school and met our host families.